>>97398693
Isn't Lore dead and a scam?

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>>97398682
Mythos was somewhat popular in the 90s. After that fantasy flight made a card game for Call of Cthulhu that later became an LCG then it died.

Nowadays Arkham Horror is the most popular Cthulhu mythos game.It is an LCG that every player picks an investigator and makes a deck for it. The game mix board(card as locations)+miniatures(or tokens for the investigators) with action&equipment cards (things that your investigator uses). The game is players vs environment (mythos deck) where you pick an adventure and the deck for it play the hole of antagonists and challenges for the players.
The game also has a campaign like mode where adventures are connected and players carry over things from one adventure to the next until they finish the storyline.

>>97398482
>Lorcana
Yes, there was a shortage of Lorcana when the first set came out. I recall having to got to multiple Toys r Us stores (I'm in Canada, we still have those) because they were limiting customers to 2 boosters per visit/day, and having to call around to half a dozen LCS to try to track down stock. They were difficult to get well into the 2nd set, when they reprinted set 1.

TCGs with the best art?

>>97398796
Sorcery

>>97396471
>One example being how rogue's sneak attack doesn't work on undead, constructs, oozes, plants, and incorporeal creatures"
That was good actually
>undead campaign
Once you realize you’re in an “undead campaign”, why would you not take features / multiclass / purchase magic items that help you mitigate that? It’s on the player if they’re fighting an army of volcano dragons and they go out of their way to get a flametongue and learn firestorm
>firing arrows from hiding to get advantage is pretty easy
This is more an opinion, but that’s an exceedingly boring way to play, regardless of its effectiveness

>>97397933
I’ve already had plenty of experience with enspelled weapons and the horrid gameplay they almost always bring. There’s a reason they’re actually banned in Adventurer’s League.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sb3eb36JhqQ&pp=ygURRW5zcGVsbGVkIHdlYXBvbnPSBwkJTwoBhyohjO8%3D

>>97398944
>That was good actually
Having it be blanket by creature type is weird. Zombies are notorious for dying to headshots, and so a Rogue precisely hitting one in the face with a crossbow should absolutely work.
The existence of damage rolls by themselves already imply that any monster can be hit in a way that does more or less damage.

>It’s on the player if they’re fighting an army of volcano dragons and they go out of their way to get a flametongue and learn firestorm
Problem is that some classes don't really have an alternative. A Wizard or a Cleric can just prepare different spells. A Rogue can't just take a rest and suddenly get a new damage-dealing feature to replace sneak attack that enemies aren't arbitrarily immune to.

>>97396650
Assuming your new to gming - the solution here is simply to break character and tell them that there’s nothing there after they poke at it a bit.
Generally dropping the illusion isn’t preferred, but it’s much more conducive to fun gameplay (the ultimate goal) than four people sitting around as the fifth hears “no” over and over again, and slowly wanting to kill him.

Just a simple “It’s a wall, that’s it guys” resolves the problem

>>97399030
The fighter can apparently just hit them harder with power attack but oh no can't get them in a vulnerable area lmao

3.5 was fucking retarded in so many ways. I liked a lot of what they did but I just couldn't go back. 4e is where sneak attack worked against all enemies and thank fuck.

I'm not even a tertiary, but I WILL be stirring this pot.

>>97390484
>noooo they're not the good guys James Workshop SAID SO
>GW releases Space Marine II and some cinematics showing space marines heroically fighting orks

>>97397227
You're halfway to understanding the point brother

>>97397302
It really doesn't in any meaningful capacity, I did 3 years in the military and one tour in afghanistan and received a single hour of bayonet training during basic and then never again.

>>97384550
Its their fucking ip you triple retard

>>97388886
Anon, they had infinite money. They arguably still have infinite money. What the fuck is anyone supposed to do.

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>>97356991
>human archmage and now you have 5000 of these fuckers running around.
Yeah but they've spent the last 4800 of those years in the grips of ennui, only occasional moving away from shitscrying on their on crystal ball network to incinerate a horde of goblins.

>>elves being a long-lived race with magical affinity?! No, they sure are lazy and waste their lifespan, because I say so!

>>97398121
Yeah game mechanics make it that way sadly

>>97398121
Have you even looked at the spine of a TTRPG that says otherwise?

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>>97398780
While my dogs were busy getting mulched by the shugengan lord and his stupid deer-dragon-horse mount and my daemon prince was obliterating the sky lantern with a constant barrage of magic missiles, my chaos warrior death star, which had taken heavy losses from both the sky lantern's shooting and cannon fire, made a stand on the hill in the center of the board and got double-charged by a unit of jade lancers and the sentinel. Ormos rolled a six on the Cackling Blade's attack roll twice in a row, taking two wounds as a result, and proceeded to peel the jade lancer champion like a potato in a single round of combat before proceeding to annihilate the rest of the unit alongside his fellow slaves to darkness. Quorthon continued his streak of somehow failing to do the one thing he exists to do and barely managed to eke out a single casting of Daemonic Vigour. You continue to fail me, Quorthon. Perhaps a new sorcerer ought to take the reins. Anyway, though the jade lancers were slain to a man, the sentinel was pushed back without suffering a single wound. Said sentinel would proceed to get charged by my forsaken next turn, who attacked the giant statue eighteen times and somehow managed to inflict not a single wound on it, and stomped all five of the pathetic fools to a fine paste in a single round of combat. This catastrophic failure would result in the sentinel overrunning into my chariot, which obviously did not go well and was a sign that I was quickly losing control of the game.

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>>97398828
My knights fought valiantly against the shuggy-wuggy-whateverthefuckit'scalled, but despite charging the perfidious cathayan half-dragon with their lances they only managed to inflict a single wound. I don't want to complain too much right now, but why does this thing get to have better saves, more wounds, better spell lores and better army lore spells (that it doesn't have to pay a tax to take) than a daemon prince for way less points? The jade warriors were there too and they provided enough static CR to force my knights to flee, which resulted in said knights getting pursued, caught, and executed. While this was happening the sentinel smashed my chariot to bits and Quorthon miraculously survived two cannon shots without taking a single wound. He may be a complete failure as a sorcerer, worthless in melee, and very ugly, but clearly the gods love him.

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>>97398886
The last two turns of the game could be described by the words "crisis management" and "oh god oh fuck Quorthon cast something please". Perhaps the little shit heard me, because he finally managed to cast Steed of Shadows after five turns of utter ineptitude, which allowed my chaos warriors to fly-march 24" away and attempt to secure their points value and potentially regroup for a daring charge if my opponent got cocky. Meanwhile, my daemon prince somehow managed to bungle 6 spells in a row thanks to the shugengan lord having a longer dispel range than normal wizards. Why, GW, why? Anyway, Dehumanizer's repeated failures would eventually result in him being charged by said shugengan lord, who used his magic blade to bypass my daemon prince's regeneration save and sent him screaming back to the realm of chaos in a single round of combat. Enraged by the death of his lord and master, Ormos screamed out a challenge when the arrogant Cathayan prince charged into what was left of my army. Perhaps as a sign that Ormos was worthy of leading the warband, the pathetic princeling on his prancing pony failed to inflict a single wound on the mighty champion of chaos and ran off to go cry into his dragon-mother's skirt! With my general slain and my only surviving unit being my regiment of chaos warriors, the battle came to an end. A resounding victory for Cathay and a terrible loss for Chaos!

I kinda wanna use tzzangor enlightned as chaos knights but I want to fill the empty space with some eldritch gubbins like hounds so it can have some kind of pandemonium vibe.

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>>97399001
What a game! My complaining may lead you to believe otherwise, but I had a really great time. I won't get in to all my mistakes and how I could have won if my daemon prince hadn't been utterly useless for the last three quarters of the battle, but I will say that Cathay seems like a really strong army. Not only do they just get extra special rules for no good reason, my opponent didn't even bring an optimized list and all his units were really powerful. It is obscene in the extreme how good shugengan lords are for their points cost and it's somehow inconceivably more extreme how terrible daemon princes are when you're not running the bog-standard, boilerplate, and boring ogre blade + meteoric iron + extra arm + mark of nurgle + lvl 1 wizard setup. Why do daemon princes only have four wounds? Why does their regen save turn off when they get hit by magical attacks? Anyway, besides my DP sucking and Quorthon continuing to fail me when I need him the most, I'd say I lost this game because I played poorly, which would be reassuring if my opponent hadn't purposefully brought a weak list. Final thoughts: The Cackling Blade is the coolest thing to come out of that new chaos arcane journal and it's not even a chaos item. Spells and attacks that negate armour and ward saves are extremely powerful. The marching column dogs thing seems like it's not as good as people say it is, but maybe I just did it wrong. Decoupling strength from AP was a mistake. Bring back power dice.

For completeness sake, here is the 3e write up on how the Haltans grow food:
>Haltans collect rainwater in barrels and cisterns. In times of drought, water can be hauled up from the rivers, but such work is hard and risks encounters with the fae.
>The Haltan diet relies heavily on fruits, berries, and nuts such as hazelnuts, grapes, and rose hips, as well as tender leaves, shoots, and inner bark when in season. Farmers tend to treetop gardens, transporting soil from the surface over the years and replenishing it with composted material. There they grow herbs, vegetables, and flowers for the beekeepers’ hives to pollinate. Mushrooms, harvested from caves in hollows beneath the trees, feature in many dishes.
>Animal products, though a luxury, form a significant part of the Haltan diet. Households cage-raise small birds, rabbits, rodents, and lizards for meat, eggs, fur, feathers, and the like. Hunters train hawks to catch small game like squirrels and hares on the ground, or to pluck smaller birds from the air and fish from the river. Trappers drop snares from low branches to capture larger animals and work together to haul them up into the trees.

>>97398287
Huh, a real downgrade from 1E's description, I don't remember what 2E had

>>97398224
>They sent the jobber Sidereals I suppose
You think that Sidereal was jobbing? The other Sidereal that was involved got executed. Dying to bureaucracy when you have Arcane Fate and any number of opportunities to just walk away into temporary exile takes some doing.

>>97398224
Oh, this confirms my theory that Yurgen was meant to represent Archery.

Now there's the question of why caste book night is so weird, Jiunan seems to be more of a Zenith than a representative of any night's abilities.

>>97398997
He does have Archery 5

>>97393570
Give me a day or so and I will see what I can do.

What do you guys think is the most horrific lore bit in Trench Crusade? Honestly, not in a dark way but in a really fucked up way. Skincrawl stuff.

>>97398056
The vast majority of the Black Grail stuff but especially the diseased pigfucker, that one Church of Metamorphosis short story where a captured Faithful refuses to tell them of how their defenses work so they just decide to crack open his skull and read the information from the spasms of his dying brain, Sin-Eaters conceptually, etc. I think the more freaky or gross out shit hits harder for me than the more overtly dark stuff.

>>97398056
That people are born into a world where a common fruit that people eat essentially melts them, where cannibalism is so commonplace these there are open air markets for it, and even worse things and they still choose to support that way of life.
The total disregard of human life in the hell controlled lands is the most banally horrific aspect. I love it

>>97391717
>greentext
Americans are really stupid when it comes to religion.
As for your army, the problems really come to bear against particular armies and after a few battles in campaign. Lions are eh, but jannies remain solid throughout.
Assassins really lose shine once your enemies start getting more numbers or better gear all around. Worse, they are vulnerable to shooting, and most armies can get good shooty down the line, and assassins are, at best, trading blows with other elite units.
That said, what is your list?

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>>97398905
Pretty sure I got it from Luth Twitter, if not their Facebook group...

>>97398864
Didn't realise the "altright" boogeyman still existed in 2026

>>97398798
Who are you quoting?

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>>97398861
2002?

>>97398992
grifters

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>>97398483
>Game mechanics involve subliminally programming yourself so you can do manchurian candidate shit without breaking your own self-delusion.
kino

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>>97398483
The player simultaneously tries to maintain the belief that he is human while attempting to decipher the dark workings of metaphysical manipulation. I like the Antagonism in that.
I'd suggest the player needs to take antipsychotics at regular intervals, or even morphine in emergencies, to maintain this illusion. It gets harder the deeper you journey down the rabbit hole.
This could be implemented with a value similar to the Mental Stability System in Call of Cthulhu.

I think a secret conspiracy in which people are processed into food and sold in supermarkets Idea stolen from Onions Green would fit well into the dark schizo noir atmosphere.

>>97398859
I think in order to make it work you need to have a certain degree of separation between the player and the character.
Hell, maybe you have two character sheets: One for your bug person when he's lucid and one for when he's pretending. You have to do a balancing act of time between either persona, tactically code switch, shit like that.

>>97398921
Sounds cool. Original idea. Quite promising
Since drugs have been mentioned a few times maybe we could expand on that and make them a game mechanic.

Stimulants:
(eg Cocaine) increase concentration and performance

Antipsychotics and Opiates:
Supresses symptoms and self-awareness but also blocks access to transdimensional information.

Psychedelics and Insecticides:
Give you Hallucinations, increase esoteric perception and allow contact with unknown entities. You'll see some things you won't like though.

Obviously all substances come with their irl side effects.


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I think it's important to clarify what players actually do in a session. I'd suggest that players start as "normal" detectives/investigators with more or less mundane cases which then become increasingly strange and surreal as the investigation progresses until the layers of reality literally start unfolding.
Similar to Cthulhu, the players gradually become "mad," because of this with the difference that here they are actually experiencing a higher reality and achieving gnosis, which brings serious advantages but also disadvantages.

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>>97398869
>anon asks for GOOD dragon cyoas
>first example is dragonfail

>>97398651
>3
Age: Large (adult dragon, sleeps weeks at a time, will have lair, will have magic blood)

>5
Colour: White

>1
Locomotion: Forelimbs Only

>3
Head like a: Lion

>6
Wings: Birdlike

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>>97398897
>Gifts:
Magic Tome, Angels Feather x8, Slayers Gun

800x human. The average human can sprint at ~25 km/h. 25 x 800 = 20000 km/h = ~5555.6 m/s = ~16.2 mach.

I doubt any of the opponents can survive or even react to an attack from such a powerhouse. Still, best use the Slayers Gun to ensure they die.

I will spend the 7 days of preparation studying magic and learning martial arts.

During the war, I will hide in an overlooking position. Once all the opponents are accounted for, I will quickly but stealthily get close and kill them.

>>97397322
There is only one cyoa.


Entropist.

Is it morally wrong for jumper to auction his used panties to his viewers and not warn them that they'll turn people into femboys?

>>97397701
I think the real question is, is it morally wrong for him NOT to do that.

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I have been spending the past couple days getting my ass beat in Master Duel trying to make a slifer deck work. So what did your Jumper do in Yugioh (Any Yugioh Jump)

>>97398865
I was fighting wars in the Duel Terminal jumps

>>97398865
Ragebaited Atem with the Yata lock combo before a serious duel.

>>97398802
Ohh, wait a second. But if I'm surrounded by 3 guys and use one action to walk away, it will cost them 3 action in total to catch back up. I think I'm learning

>>97398802
>>97398806
Also on that note, our party is currently missing a ranged class, so I'm probably just building a fighter with a bow.
I want to prep before the game and write down some useful actions I can do during encounters so I don't just stand there and shoot arrows for all of my three actions (I hated how boring our fights in 5e were). Any pointers what I should look into? There are a lot of them from the looks of it.

>>97398802
Expending even one action of a monsters' is a massive boost to your survivability. Many monsters contain abilities like Grab, Trip, Swallow Whole, Rend, different powers that can cost an action or two. Action denial is a core part of 2e's combat meta and skirmishers like Rogue, Monk, and Swashbuckler all love to waste actions forcing monsters to chase them.
As for Tripping, when timed well and combo'd with other powers like Reactive Strike, it can leave them in such a massive state of disadvantage. Being Proned means you are Off-Guard so you take -2 to your AC, which is not only +10% to your hit rate, but +10% to your crit rate thanks to Degrees of Success. The more you play 2e the more you learn how important crowd control is to winning fights decisively.

>>97398850
As for Bow Fighters, it's pretty clear what feats you are meant to grab and how they add to a ranged playstyle. Double Shot, Point-Blank Shot, Parting Shot, you really can't miss what you need to do. You gonna be turrety by design, but there's plenty you can do and add to your fight rotation. As for additional actions, it would depend on your skill selection, look into Demoralize, Battle Medicine, Create a Diversion, or Hide/Take Cover for the basics. And then you can look into stuff like consumables and magic/alchemical arrows

>>97398850
So if you want combat to be more dynamic, a ranged dps is probably the worst choice. That isn't to say there aren't interesting ranged dps, but Fighter will do exactly what you want to avoid. Ranger is worse than Fighter, but you have more interesting things to do by default with focus spells and potentially an animal companion. I'd look into Investigator too, they get to pre roll their attack for the turn to see if you hit or miss. If you roll bad, you figure something else out to do with your actions, which can just be shooting someone else. In that case, you want to build your character with a caster archetype, or something that doesn't require attack rolls to rely on as a backup.

As for generic actions to do outside of attacking, Demoralize is an easy and useful one if you go into the Intimidation skill. You can also go Medicine to heal yourself and other people in battle. There are a lot of options like you said, so it could help narrow it down if you have an idea of who your character is outside of being a ranged dps. Like is he a shit talker, or a prepared calculating type?

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I take a certain degree of pride in this build specifically, if only because I think it really goes to show the strengths of PF1e as a system that I could take the concept of a Vtuber whose whole "thing" is basically about being (somehow safely) irradiated and that the system has a way for me to mechanically represent that without just being like "yep, she's radioactive, and will die from it in the next 5 minutes".
The only concession I had to make that's not accurate to her lore is that the class gives her the Earthbending, which is why I went out of my way to build it in a "she has it but doesn't use it because she doesn't understand it" kind of way.

Scale modeler here.
Protip: Before assembly, carefully study the instructions and see what makes sense and what not, make annotations and have your own plan.
If you have trouble imagining: I am currently building a biplane. It will be silver. However, the struts are wood. Because masking and handpainting shit when also doing airbrush is a terrible way to do things on an already assembled plane (nonwithstanding being able to reach all the inner surfaces on an assembled plane even when going monocolor or something), I had to make a plan and order how to properly paint and then assemble stuff.

Instructions mainly tell you what goes where; they don't necessarily give you the proper order for what you want to do. And the KDM instructions are just plain terrible.

>>97395616
>Instructions mainly tell you what goes where; they don't necessarily give you the proper order for what you want to do
Yes, in retard fucking world, your world, perhaps it works like that sure
In this world, if your paper doesn't have the correct assembly order, that's just schematics
INSTRUCTION on normal world INSTRUCT you the way of doing something, and obviously DO NOT leave stuff to the interpretation of the nigger that needs the instructions
Well maybe in your word, the retard word, "instructions" are like that, sure that's a possibility

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>>97392774
Nta, but i have seen a few of the survivor builds on thw site not updated for some survivors that got more/less parts. I think it's can remember lion knight girls and some of the parts in 10 year survivors. Also, let's not forget the absolute peak of customer assistance that is showing the peices going on the back of the model, but not show a single image of the back of the model and where it goes. Pic related is one example, and its a peice with specific grooved part on it, but dose not fit easily anywhere I can see. Dung beetle is another example with the eye stalks or whatever on the back.

>>97396303
>expecting pootler to do actual work on the backend instead of just dreaming up his next shitty narrative DnD character to sell to retarded people
lol

Man, how the hell are you supposed to be ready for node 2 nemeses by ly9, does poots actually expect me to do nothing but hunt white lion for 9 years and have a full leather set + shield in time?

>>97398573
>t. the dumb fuck here
>>97398621
Then why are you here? I am pretty sure Sharia law bans tabletop games.

>>97398635
Easy, just start with "what's up bro' like you would with any other dude in the LGS

>>97398836
>I am pretty sure
The start of every intelligent post

God I hate fat slob nerds.

>>97397055
Fake.